I would definately make the employees store their data on a central
share somewhere. If I had to backup individual computers I would go
mad. You can setup a samba server and make sepearte folders for each
person if that is a concern, then you just run a backup routine on the
fileserver.
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 09:38, Gordon Chamberlin wrote:
> Well, I'm finally convinced that tape backup machines are evil.
>
> I'm considering going without a tape backup and do IDE hard drives or
> perhaps even writable DVDs. (Do they make rewritable DVDs yet?)
>
> I have to backup windows workstations. There are about five of them.
> I'm going to backup "My Documents" and Outlook email.
>
> I don't want to create shares on each workstation as they'd be visible
> by all. I know that I could reduce permissions to make the shares
> readable by a single user/machine.
>
> I'd also like to only backup changed files, and encryption would be
> nice.
>
> Either client pushing to server or server pulling from client is fine.
> Right now, I think it would be easier to run something on the client
> that pushes data to a server.
>
> My question is:
> Does anyone know of a program that does this: backup changed windows
> files to a remote linux machine that I can execute at defined times?
>
> I'm willing to run samba on the linux server.
>
> I realize this may be off-topic as I am trying to do things on windows
> machines. Just wondering any of you have tried to solve a similar
> problem.
>
> Thanks.
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Eric Katherman <
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